How about some Peformance increases? It's just not quite as quick as Apple's Mail, and suffers odd slowdowns, especially with the wonderful conversations addon, something that I believe should be built in.
Andreas has some mock-ups:
http://www.andreasn.se/diverse some/temp/tb-linux-mwin2.png
http://www.andreasn.se/diverse some/temp/tb-linux-write.png
Compose in a tab:
- Maybe we can be clever on session restore and restore torn out tabs as new windows, as they should be.
Chris Coulson keeps hearing that there's too much information in the thread pane
- Maybe we can increase the padding between some columns
- We should also remove the columns that aren't used by many people.
- The thread indicator might be redundant (since there are arrows for unfolding threads)
- Blake would love a two-line message preview. But that's really hard to do with the current tree view.
Address book:
- Wouldn't it be great if users could view all of their contacts from a particular city?
- We cannot currently change where the Collected Addresses go. It would be nice if we could redirect that to EDS.
- Adding and removing EDS addressbooks
- Setting the default for collected addresses
- OR, maybe mirroring the contacts from Personal and Collected to EDS.
- We like this idea.
- Might be worth getting on the Evolution mailing list.
Chris noticed that when he does server-side filtering, and Thunderbird only does updates on INBOX, and so he had to go through each folder to set it update.
- We've looked at this before, arguing whether or not this is the correct default. We need to revisit this.
- Maybe we could make it a single option per account as a compromise.
Search:
-When I search for something, I get this new tab that's almost impossible for me to find the thing that I wanted to search for.
- I don't think merging the search fields will help this problem. More thought required.
i10n:
- How does Canonical find out what translations exist and are complete for a given language?
- Easy: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/dashboard?av=tb8
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird_Localization
Importing for Evolution:
- Is this possible?
- Filters....how much of a problem is that.
- There's possibly a tool that imports / exports filters via XML. It's labsy, and provided by Google for GMail. Maybe this is a format we can grok?
- http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-in-labs-filter-importexport.html
What about a way of linking some mail I've received with the response I sent?
- Conversations does this, but maybe we should do it in core, too.
- What would the UX be here?